Stealing some Morrow Inspiration

[kato13]

Line of sight, you get 54.2 miles for 1500 feet but at AM radio frequencies, the signal follows the curvature of the Earth as well as bounce off the ionosphere at night. Here in Pittsburgh, I can get 1100 (WTAM) out of Cleveland and even 760 (WJR) out of Detroit during the day.

Best wishes regarding your mom. One of my best friends was in the same position 7 years ago (stage III breast) and currently is suffering no ill effects (except for some residual chemo effects when she loses weight). Hope you can keep yours and her spirits up.

Yeah my dad was a overnight DJ in the late 60s on one of the more powerful Chicago AM stations and he would get callers from across the country. The central location of Chicago, the relative flatness of the nation around here and the overnight bounces really makes it go an amazing distance.

[Adm.Lee]

I'm told there is still a pocket of dedicated St. Louis Cardinals fans in West Virginia, since the radio station carrying baseball games in the '40s and '50s could be clearly heard in that state after dark.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Best wishes regarding your mom. One of my best friends was in the same position 7 years ago (stage III breast) and currently is suffering no ill effects (except for some residual chemo effects when she loses weight). Hope you can keep yours and her spirits up.

Yeah my dad was a overnight DJ in the late 60s on one of the more powerful Chicago AM stations and he would get callers from across the country. The central location of Chicago, the relative flatness of the nation around here and the overnight bounces really makes it go an amazing distance.

Thanks, Kato! Yeah, it is tough but so far as we know, it is just in the left breast and perhaps a small spot on her lung, which is typical. Hopefully the chemo will get it, shrink it and then we will have surgery. I've talked to another patient at Mom's oncologist and she had breast cancer for the least 10 years and the last 5 years, she was on chemo straight. She has issues but she manages her cancer.

Chicago DJ What station WCFL, WMAQ or WLS I've heard of some legendary DJs of the time like Larry Lujack, Jim Runyon (who came up with Chickenman), Barney Pip, John Driscoll, Dick Biondi, Jim Stagg, etc. I pick up Chicago a lot here in Pittsburgh. The furthest I've picked up was an AM station from Berkley, California in my (then) Ford Explorer along with the "Carribean Beacon" from the West Indies. I've also picked up Texas stations. When I was in Florida, I listened to KDKA-AM from here in Pittsburgh and so did my uncle, who worked for NASA at the Cape. My cousins remember him on most nights hearing static and whistles as he tried to pull in KDKA. BTW, WJR's signals skip across the Great Lakes and across a relatively flat Ohio so that's how I get them in the day. I once talked across Lake Erie on 2 meters VHF into Canada across Lake Erie using one 1 watt, the standard HT rubber antenna and 6 penlite batteries.

[Nowhere Man 1966]

I'm told there is still a pocket of dedicated St. Louis Cardinals fans in West Virginia, since the radio station carrying baseball games in the '40s and '50s could be clearly heard in that state after dark.

I think that's KMOX, 1120, out of St. Louis. One of our bigtime talkshow hosts here in Pittsburgh, Mike Pintek, didn't have his contract renewed so he hopped around the country on various stations like KMOX, WBT out of Charlotte, NC and so on. I called him up when he was on KMOX and since I'm from Pittsburgh, a lot of Pittsburghers and nearby WVers called after me.

[kato13]

Chicago DJ What station WCFL, WMAQ or WLS I've heard of some legendary DJs of the time like Larry Lujack, Jim Runyon (who came up with Chickenman), Barney Pip, John Driscoll, Dick Biondi, Jim Stagg, etc.

I was always told that Dick Orkin came up with chickenman. Chickenman_(radio_series). He was really good friends with my dad. They worked together on commercials for decades.

I think my dad was on WLS, WDAI, WFYR, and WXRT at different times. WHile he was supposed to DJ he really did a lot of comedy. I only remember his time at WXRT and a tiny bit at WFYR. I think he knew Larry Lujack and Dick Biondi pretty well. I have met both. Of course the highlight of famous people I have met due to my dad is David Bowie whom I met prenatally